Summary Of Tara Mckelvey When Mom Has A Secret

Mum with a Secret ‘When Mom Has a Secret’ is a long, but detailed, article by an American journalist and correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, Tara Mckelvey. She has also written for The New York Times Book Review, Marie Claire, and The American Prospect. Mckelvey’s article angles the key events that bring up the past of the iconic terrorist group, SLA. The manifesto Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American made radical active group between 1973 and 1975 who considered themselves as a vanguard army. The well-known SLA group was known for, as Mckelvey writes, “… violent acts, including the murder of Oakland school superintendent Marcus A. Foster, bank robberies, kidnapping, and bomb-making.” (Mckelvey, page 1) TRANSITION SENTENCE …show more content…
In order to comprehend this, as each individuals sex, race, political loyalties, geographical location, class and religious beliefs can heavily influence the degree of subjective writing. Mckelvey a happily married woman who is also a mother of three children and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, a senior editor for The American Prospect and a contributing editor for Marie Claire. Mckelvey at some point in her life was also a professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service where in fact taught a course on National Security and media. The research she has done for the article ‘When Mom Has a Secret’ her investigative work on national security, Mckelvey is supported by not only the Alicia Patterson Foundation but also Northwestern University's Carnegie National Security Journalism